Innovation
Global Luxury. African Soul.
A coming-soon collection of futuristic, advanced Zipper Vibe design.
Z-New is the forward laboratory of the house: adaptive smart-fabric garments, levitating modular panels, holographic wearables and next-generation mobility surfaces. Every concept keeps the house grammar — world engineering, one African weave signature, one gold diamond Z. Registration is open; pieces release in waves.
Fashion is temporary. Identity is forever.
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What the house is building next.
Fabric that shifts weave density and thermal behaviour with the weather.
Backlit gold circuitry drawn from Bogolan mudcloth geometry, tuned per garment.
Panels, soles and shells that swap instead of being replaced.
Each concept ships to registered members first, in limited runs.
Views
Colourway
Bogolan mudcloth geometry, redrawn as light — the house signature in its most advanced form.
Seven views · 3D sweep
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Interactive 360 viewer. Left and right arrows rotate 15 degrees, hold Shift for 45, Page Up and Page Down turn a quarter, up and down arrows or plus and minus zoom, Home resets the view, Space toggles auto-rotation and F opens full screen.
Z-New™ — What the house is building next.
Z-View 360™
Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom to loupe level, switch on material inspection to read the weave, tune the lighting rig and compare two views side by side.
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Studio lighting
Colourway
Opens the fitting stage with this line already selected, using these exact frames.
Swing tags
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Every Z-New enquiry is routed on arrival to the studio that owns the work — atelier, mobility, maison, partnerships, press, lab or talent — so the reply comes from the people making it.
The range
How it works
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Join the Z-New list to be notified before each wave.
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Members see the concept film and material studies first.
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Limited allocations open to registered members for 72 hours.
Story behind the design
Bamana star mudcloth in moss & ochre, worked into the crop neck band, left cuff, right cuff.
moss & ochre
ZB-BAMA-MOS-503
Bogolanfini begins as hand-woven cotton strip cloth, joined selvedge to selvedge before it ever meets the dye. It is dyed with a n'tjankara leaf mordant followed by a slow black-mud pass — the pattern is not printed on, it is drawn in mud and then the ground around it is lifted away.
The tape carries eight-point stars set in a measured grid. In the Bamana reading, Bamana star is orientation after dark — guidance and clear intent. Z-Vibe keeps the motif at heritage scale rather than shrinking it into a logo pattern, so the hand of the maker stays legible on the finished piece.
Mudcloth is placed on construction points, never scattered as decoration: crop neck band, left cuff, right cuff, front placket. These are the lines the eye already follows on this silhouette, so the cloth reads as structure — an edge, a facing, a seam — and holds its meaning at three metres and at arm's length alike.
Each length is hand-turned and pick-stitched in silk thread, then pressed over a ham so the tape sits flat, not glued. Tape width and motif repeat are cut to the size band, so a petite run and an extended run carry the same proportion rather than the same measurement.
African heritage, global luxury, future design: the mudcloth is set against European finishing and the aged-gold Z-Closure™ mark. Nothing is erased on either side — the meeting is the design. Different Roots. One Human Story.
Care · Cold hand-wash or specialist clean only. Mud dye deepens with age; never bleach, and dry flat away from direct sun.
Each step below reflects work that actually exists for this piece. Refinement is a design process — it does not imply the piece is production-released.
Owner-approved design board intakeIn progress
Registered from the collection register entry; the full design board is still being filed.
Z-Sole Architecture™ assignmentComplete
Sole identity resolved for this style — Z-Grip™ Z-New Cut (ZG-1314) on the Z-Grip™ lugged rubber chassis, chevron storm channels cut edge to edge for water clearance, asymmetric anatomical last shaped to the natural toe splay, stack 18 mm heel / 16 mm forefoot, 2 mm drop, laced in round braided Bogolan cord over a waxed core, aged-gold aglets, diamond Z at the lateral wall, Z-VIBE at the medial wall. Tread, last and stack height were made unique to the shoe rather than shared across the register.
Bogolan signature verificationComplete
Mudcloth was confirmed as a construction detail (laces, panel, tongue or heel band) and not surface print, and the aged-gold Z-Closure™ mark was placed.
Z-Studio 4K refinement passNot yet run
No refinement output released yet — this page reads the approved board unretouched.
Seven-view studio captureNot yet run
No angle has been shot yet; all 7 views read the design board.
Questions
Available finishes
Heritage signature
Bogolan mudcloth geometry, redrawn as light — the house signature in its most advanced form.
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